Mining Museums Face Rock Bottom
Helen Davidson on how mining history is in jeopardy.
Economic History
The Entrepreneurial State, 1700-1914
Did the British state help the UK's transformation into a position of world industrial dominance? Were 'gentlemen capitalists' or no-nonsense industrialists fawned on or frustrated by government and its agents? Martin Daunton addresses a controversial historical debate.
'The Projecting Age' - William Paterson and the Bank of England
David Armitage looks at the Bank's founder and his contribution to the Financial Revolution that arguably launched Britain on the road to economic pre-eminence.
The Enabling State? Welfare and Industrial Society
Eric Evans looks at the industrial and economic backdrop to the developments of Britain's Welfare State.
The Birmingham Coiners, 1770-1816
John Powell chronicles the activities of a Midlands ring of counterfeiters whose activities open a window on the economic and social ambiguities of late Georgian England.
Japanese Women at Work, 1880-1920
What was it like to be a 'boiled octopus' in the silk mills of Japan before the First World War? Janet Hunter looks at the life and conditions of the women who bore the brunt of Japan's rapid industrialisation.
Money and Power: America and Europe in the 20th Century
Money makes the world go around: Kathleen Burk looks at how the Yankee dollar transferred influence from the Old World to the New.
Lost Without Trace
Tony Aldous discusses the missing millions in the art world
On the Turn: Japan, 1900
From isolation to Great Power status: Richard Perren explains how a mania for Westernisation led to Japan's transformation at the turn of the century.